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The way I heard it, Jeb Bush was supposed to be the next Bush in the White House after daddy Bush, but W jumped the queue. Of course, Jeb didn’t have Karl Rove stirring his magical cauldron of eyes of newt, vampire bat blood and a black cat bone. In the battle of dynasties, Clinton still leads the pack. By “pack”, I mean the whole pack, Republicans and Democrats alike. Jeb is supposed to have a lot of baggage, but at this point in time, I don’t know what it is and couldn’t care less. This is all like the hot stove league in baseball during the off season. Lot of talk, rumors, guesses. I don’t care. Tell me who’s on the team on opening day in the...

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The way I heard it, Jeb Bush was supposed to be the next Bush in the White House after daddy Bush, but W jumped the queue. Of course, Jeb didn’t have Karl Rove stirring his magical cauldron of eyes of newt, vampire bat blood and a black cat bone. In the...

Voters who are undecided on a gubernatorial selection and consider themselves to lean from moderate to left should consider this: A victory by Tom Foley would be an important win for the Koch brothers, Karl Rove and their Tea Party allies. Some of you are...

If you arrived in town from outer space last weekend, your first thought was, "Wow, this place is cooking."
On Thursday night, Charles M. Blow, Doris Kearns Goodwin and Karl Rove packed The Bushnell at The Connecticut Forum on the nation's...

The reception talk included comments on latest debate between gubernatorial candidates incumbent Democrat Dannel P. Malloy and Republican challenger Tom Foley because, well it is election season!
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You can put pounds on and take them off all in one weekend as Connecticut gets ready for a marathon, a garlic fest, a couple of chili competitions and more.
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Congress appears stuck in neutral and civil discourse has been replaced by partisan sniping. Charles Blow, blogger and New York Times op-ed columnist, talked with David Holahan in a question and answer session and didn't hold out much hope for change....

The Connecticut Forum will hold an event, "Debating Our Broken Political System," on October 9, and Jenique Blair, a CREC Two Rivers Magnet High School sophomore, will participate as a member of a student panel.
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Last week, the Connecticut Forum provided a platform for Karl Rove to speak. While I am firmly in favor of unencumbered free speech, I am however, under no obligation -- as is the Connecticut Forum -- to build the platform.
Rove long ago...

Perhaps best known as the architect of President George W. Bush's successful 2000 and 2004 campaigns, Karl Rove has been described as a savvy mastermind, political pundit and the ultimate political strategist.
Rove, who served as Bush's senior adviser...

The Benghazi campaign will start soon and run until Nov. 5. Be sure to catch it at a time convenient for you. It will be broadcast and re-broadcast on Faux Snooze Channel (“We report, you deride”) 24/7. The proceedings will start with a pledge of...

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Karl Rove suggested that a 2012 incident that sent Hillary Clinton to the hospital may have caused traumatic brain injury, according to the New York Post's gossip...

Events featuring authors of books about witches and vampires, suspense and mystery and politics, religion and history, as well as books for young readers, are among those coming our way this fall. Here are highlights of literary events scheduled from...

Every year, Wesleyan psychology and neuroscience Professor John Seamon asks his students if they remember the events of their lives on 9/11.
"All the hands go up," Seamon said. "And I say, 'About a third of you are wrong.' They just sit...

Reports of the death of the tea party are greatly exaggerated.
For about two years now, certain observers have been declaring the demise of this insurgent tendency within the Republican Party. However, despite recent headlines, we should expect to hear...

There's really no way to explain what it's like to watch your parent run for president. Those of us who've been through it are members of a very small, bizarre club.
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Amal Alamuddin -- strike that, Amal Clooney -- is Barbara Walters' most fascinating person for 2014.
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Senior Bush administration officials Sunday slammed the Senate study on the CIA’s use of brutal interrogation tactics and defended the techniques as necessary to get information from senior Al Qaeda operatives who had stopped talking to interrogators.
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The Kentucky Opportunity Coalition, a conservative political nonprofit group, wasn’t very busy before last year. It didn’t raise or spend a single dollar in all of 2012. When the year ended, it had just $904 in its bank account.
But its fortunes...

Even before the official publication of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s newest book, one thing was clear: It would take a herculean blast of luck to pry anything unintended out of the former secretary of State, now hawking the book in myriad TV interviews with a...

Technically, Republican strategist Karl Rove was correct when he suggested that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton suffered a "traumatic brain injury" after a fall in 2012. A concussion is the most common form of mild traumatic brain...